Words in Time Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View

"Meanings of words are constantly changing, and the forces driving these changes are varied and diverse. The collection focuses on meaning change as a topic of interdisciplinary research. Distinguished scholars in diachronic semantics, general linguistics, classical philology, philosophy of language, anthropology, and history offer in-depth studies of language internal and external factors of meaning change. This broad range of perspectives, unprecedented in research publications of recent years, is a pioneering attempt to mirror the multifaceted nature of language as a formal, social, cognitive, cultural, and historical entity."Ekardt, Regine is the author of 'Words in Time Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View', published 2003 under ISBN 9783110176759 and ISBN 3110176750.